Katherine Mansfield: Selected Letters

by Katherine Mansfield

Book Overview

One of the pioneers of the "stream of consciousness" style of short storywriting, Katherine Mansfield never fully realized her true greatness as a writer because of her untimely death at age thirty-four. But she did leave behind an impressive outpouring of evocative writing, including a wealth of fascinating letters to her friends in the Bloomsbury circle, her family, and countless other acquaintances.
Drawn from the five volumes of her Collected Letters, this completely new selection of Katherine Mansfield's correspondence ranges from her first schoolgirl exchanges of 1903 to her last letters from the Gurdjieff Institute of Fontainebleau twenty years later. Brilliantly conveying her vivid and restless personality throughout a life that has become almost legendary for its vivacity and courage, this collection presents the voice of a new kind of twentieth-century woman moving erratically, but determinedly, toward self-definition.
The volume includes many letters to John Middleton Murry--representing a moving record of what she referred to as "that utterly intense love"--and others to such friends as Lady Ottoline Morrell, Frieda Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, S.S. Koteliansky, Anne Estelle Drey, and Dorothy Brett, as well as to her own family and chance acquaintances. Together, they chart her wide range of writing styles and reveal something of the vitality, warmth, and incisive wit that places Mansfield among the most poignant and entertaining of modern letter writers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192820524
• ISBN13: 9780192820525
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.